28 thoughts on “The Bread Cave

  1. Duckie ? July 20, 2017 / 2:05 pm

    Welcome to the Rat Cave!

    • allein ? July 20, 2017 / 7:29 pm

      • Faye July 20, 2017 / 8:08 pm

        Oh god how do you do that Allein!

        • allein ? July 20, 2017 / 8:37 pm

          The technical answer is: Go to google and search for what you want, click on “Images” at the top of the results page, click on the image you want, then click “View Image” and it’ll open the image in a new tab and you can copy the url from there. If it ends with .jpg or .png or .gif (for animated gifs) you can just paste it into the comment box and it should embed the image. Alternatively, you can get an image link from any page by right-clicking on the image and choosing “copy image address” (in Chrome, at least; not sure about other browsers).

          Like so:

          If you’re wanting to know how I find them, well, I’m willing to google just about anything. 😉

          • Faye July 21, 2017 / 6:26 am

            Hahahahaha. I meant you always find the perfect picture!

      • Duckie ? July 20, 2017 / 11:25 pm

        Thank you. I was hoping someone would be able to do this!

        • allein ? July 20, 2017 / 11:37 pm

          I aim to please.

  2. dubravkamcvmd July 20, 2017 / 3:12 pm

    Seems odd that the British Pest Control Association would produce such a beautiful portrait of a rat.

    • fkaWaldenPond July 20, 2017 / 3:20 pm

      Eeeeeeekkk! I am not afraid of rats nor bread but the image of one emerging from the other just gives me the heebie-jeebies! I just finished reading about the 1349+ Bubonic plague outbreak where fifty percent of the Europe’s population died from the plague itself or starvation directly caused by the plague deaths.

      • Gigi the cat lady July 20, 2017 / 5:50 pm

        The plague was cause by the flees on he rats not by the rats themselves, they were just transportation. But isn’t it is scary to know that there are still documented cases of Bubonic plague every year. ::shudder::

        • fkaWaldenPond July 20, 2017 / 7:13 pm

          Yes! Gigi, didn’t some kids get infected from squirrels or groundhogs, some cute rodent which were carrying plague fleas at campground a couple years back? I am pretty sure though it can be treated with antibiotics these days but can you imagine– some towns lost 80% of the population– the toll on mental health, ‘life, world’ perspective. It must have been like the end of the world.

      • allein ? July 20, 2017 / 7:27 pm

        What were you reading?

        • fkaWaldenPond July 20, 2017 / 7:46 pm

          The Ian Mortimer, Millennium book– the 14th century chapter. I like the book as he encapsulates the major influences, events that affected the biggest changes.

          • allein ? July 20, 2017 / 8:14 pm

            My library has that; I’m going to get it when I’m done with the books I have out.

            I was thinking of The Great Mortality by John Kelly.

        • Faye July 20, 2017 / 8:22 pm

          I highly recommend the book Year Of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. About 100 pages of crystalline prose of fictionalization about one small English village during the plague.

          • allein ? July 20, 2017 / 8:43 pm

            Added to my list. 😉

          • fkaWaldenPond July 20, 2017 / 8:52 pm

            Read it!!! and heartily agree Faye! 🙂 🙂

            • Faye July 21, 2017 / 6:27 am

              That book haunts me. It comes to mind all the time.

              • Smartypants July 21, 2017 / 7:23 am

                I read a book on the 1915 Flu epidemic that had a similar effect on me – it was a great book, but I finally had to give it away because every time I went back to it, I had such vivid dreams that I was living in that era.

  3. Robert July 20, 2017 / 7:43 pm

    Cute! I remember the St. Louis Children’s Zoo used to have a breadcave of mice… I don’t remember seeing them out of the bread, though.

  4. Boo's Mom July 20, 2017 / 8:57 pm

    Just watered the tropicals on my front deck and a disgruntled mousie crawled out of one
    and into another with more foliage to stay dry. After watering, I looked into that plant and saw two mousies, one about half the size of the other. Really cute, and, not at all intimidated by the lady with the garden hose!

  5. Patty July 20, 2017 / 9:11 pm

    Rats have a bad rep for carrying diseases. A pet rat was more than likely born and raised in captivity, and were not exposed to diseases or fleas carrying diseases. My daughter had a pet rat, who was the sweetest pet ever. Someone actually called CPS on me for having a baby and a pet rat. CPS workers made me put the rat cage in a room the baby couldn’t go into, and made weekly visits until the rat died. They showed up, said, “where’s the rat?” I told them he died, they said, “Okay, this is going to be our last visit” and I never heard from them again. When they showed up, and the baby (she was 18 mos at the time) woke up from her nap, one of them said, “The baby is neat and clean.” I said, “Of course she is, why wouldn’t she be?” Reply, “Well you have a pet rat…”

    • Claire July 21, 2017 / 12:16 am

      Oh my goodness! That is probably one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard! I wouldn’t personally pick a pet rat (those naked tails give me the heebiejeebies), but that just seems crazy for someone and CPS to make such a big deal out of it. Weekly visits?! What a waste of everyone’s time.

    • 6rabbits July 21, 2017 / 1:16 am

      That has to be one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever heard!

    • Smartypants July 21, 2017 / 12:28 pm

      Wow, that’s up there with the urban legend about “You can’t have a cat because it will steal the baby’s breath.”

      I can hope that at least the CPS workers learned something from the experience, so they could be more appropriate with future families.

      • Duckie ? July 21, 2017 / 8:21 pm

        Yea, visit TWICE a week to figure out how she’s covering things up!

  6. 6rabbits July 21, 2017 / 1:22 am

    That is a mouse, not a rat.
    Rats can be very good pets–sadly, they just don’t live very long. They are quite smart and can be trained to do many things.

  7. Faye July 21, 2017 / 6:30 am

    I had pet mice for a bit. Cutest and cleanest elegant pets.

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